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Period: 500 to
History of Medicine
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Period: 500 to Dec 31, 1500
Middle Ages
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Jan 21, 1242
Ibn al- Baitar
Ibn al-Baitar wrote on botany and pharmacy.Studied animal anatomy and medicine. -
Jan 21, 1288
The hospital of Santa Maria Nuova
The hospital of Santa Maria Nuova was founded in Florence and was strictly medical. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 21, 1300
Islamic Hospitals
Islamic hospitals; Health care for the sick -
Use of the scientific method begins
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Human
human anatomical studies allowed -
Robert Hooke
reflective microscope -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
describes bacteria -
Period: to
Industrial Revolution
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Francis Bacon
uses microscope to discover plague fleas -
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner discovered the 1st vacination -
Joesph Lister
practive of medical asepis -
Robert Koch
Robert Koch- discovery of pathogens. -
Bubonic plaque
bubonic plaque hits San Franscisco -
medical scince advances
Treatments for infections are mastered -
Period: to
Modern World
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Alexander Fleming
Discovers penicillin -
First HMO insurance
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Salk
discovers the polo vaccine -
WHO declares smallpox eradicated
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gardisil
Gardasil, a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, is approved b the FDA -
Rhazes
Rhazes discovered the differnece between small pox and measles. -
Small pox
The first case of Small pox occured
